Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, 581-1848 ORONO — The Maine Folklife Center is presenting a lecture Wednesday, March 26, by University of Pennsylvania professor Dan Ben Amos, author and scholar on Jewish, Eastern European and Middle Eastern folklore. “Is There a Jewish Mother in Jewish Folklore?” is the title of the talk, which is free and open […]
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Contact: Jean MacRae, 581-2137George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Last year, civil engineering undergraduates Heather Martin and Lee Rand joined a group of other UMaine students visiting a small, poverty-stricken community in Honduras over spring break as part of a Spanish language service-learning class. While some in the group led by Spanish professor Kathleen March worked […]
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Contact: Danielle Meyer at (207) 581-1733 ORONO– University of Maine graduate student Danielle Meyer,working with Dept. of Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Prof. Mary-Ellen Camire, is looking for women between the ages of 30 and 50 for an appetite study involving potatoes. Volunteers who complete all sessions of the study will receive $100 compensation. Some […]
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Contact: Yifeng Zhu (207) 581-2499 Bruce Segee (207) 581-2212 Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Two innovative programs being launched at the University of Maine will allow college undergraduates as well as middle-school teachers and their students to experience firsthand the extraordinary educational potential of supercomputer technology. The Supercomputing Undergraduate Program in Maine (SuperMe), […]
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Contact: Renee Kelly, 581-1141George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Students from five area high schools and 10 area businesses will team up Thursday, Feb. 28, for the Junior Achievement-Bank of America Titan Challenge, part of Maine’s observance of National Entrepreneurship Week. Ten student teams will compete at the Foster Student Innovation Center at UMaine in Orono […]
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Contact: Carl Little at little@prexar.com, 207-667-9735Stephen Hartgen at Stephen_Hartgen@hotmail.com. or 208-420-6761. Orono, Maine, Feb. 21, 2008 ‘ Vincent Hartgen, the prolific Maine artist who founded the University of Maine Art Department, the University of Maine Museum of Art, and advanced arts in the state through a lifetime of promotion and creative works of his own, […]
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Contact: Prof. Mark Wells (207) 581-4322; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — F. Sherwood Rowland, who shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1995 for his pioneering work on the formation and depletion of atmospheric ozone, will deliver a lecture March 13, at the University of Maine’s Buchanan Alumni House. Rowland, a professor of chemistry […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, Web and Public Relations SpecialistUniversity of Maine Raymond H. Fogler Library5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library, Orono, ME 04469-5729207-581-1696 ORONO — Henry David Thoreau was not just another Maine tourist. The essays Thoreau wrote about his journeys and experiences in the Maine woods reflect a deep understanding of the spiritual importance of wilderness. […]
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Contact: George Manlove: 207-581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Philosophy Colloquium Series invites the pubic to a lecture today at 4:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. The speaker is John Sallis, the Frederick J. Adelman Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. Sallis will present and discuss his paper, “The Invisibility of Painting.” […]
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Contact: Laurie Hicks, 581-3247; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Department of Art is accepting applications for the spring 2008 after-school ArtWorks program for area children in kindergarten through grade 7. ArtWorks classes will be held March 21-April 18, from 3:30-5 p.m., on consecutive Friday afternoons at Lord Hall on the Orono […]
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